Last updated: Saturday, June 16, 2007
CHERI DENNIS SLAMS 'OVER ZEALOUS' COPS
R+B singer CHERI DENNIS has hit out at Florida police for the brutal treatment she received last week when she was taken into custody for resisting arrest.
Dennis - who is signed to Sean 'Diddy' Combs' Bad Boy label - had a run in with local authorities last Friday (08Jun07) when cops pulled over her car and accused her cousin of carrying a gun.
The pair was asked to step out of the vehicle so the officers could conduct a search, but after Dennis began to voice her concern at the way they were being treated, she claims she was unnecessarily attacked with pepper spray.
She tells SOHH.com, "I was arrested Friday night for resisting arrest. It was non violent. I was in Tampa and was stopped by the cops who, for some reason, thought my cousin had a gun. They searched him, threw him up against the car.
"I started asking questions and asking for badge numbers and names of the officers. They got to shoving and they pepper sprayed me and they locked my ass up. It wasn't like it was a big altercation."
And Dennis is convinced the officers were only behaving so irrationally because they were probably being filmed for TV.
She adds, "I think that (the officers) were being filmed for 'C.O.P.S.' or some reality show, if I'm not mistaken… so they were being really over zealous. They just turned the whole thing up to 20. It was just a big misunderstanding."
Source: WENN
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